Dana White has been a distinguished determine in Donald Trump’s nook in every of his final two presidential campaigns, and it ought to come as no shock that the UFC chief will probably be there for him once more.
In response to The Wall Road Journal, White will converse at subsequent week’s Republican Nationwide Conference, simply as he has twice earlier than, solely this time White has been given the excellence as the ultimate speech earlier than Trump’s nomination acceptance in Milwaukee.
In 2016, White attended the RNC in Cleveland, talking totally on Trump’s character as he defined how Trump threw his assist behind the UFC within the early days when MMA was extremely criticized for being too barbaric. White mentioned in his speech that Trump’s “sense of loyalty and dedication will translate into how he’ll run this nation.”
Trump went on to defeat Hilary Clinton within the 2016 election.
In 2020, in the course of the top of the COVID-19 pandemic, White gave a pre-recorded speech that aired on the ultimate night time of the RNC. That point, White’s speech was extra political in nature and he known as it “critically necessary to re-elect President Trump.”
Trump misplaced the 2020 election to Joe Biden.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump, UFC president Dana White, and Child Rock pose for a photograph in the course of the UFC 295 occasion at Madison Sq. Backyard on November 11, 2023 in New York Metropolis. (Photograph by Sarah Stier/Getty Photos)
Since then, Trump has been mired in a plethora of scandals, led by changing into the primary former U.S. president convicted of a criminal offense after he was discovered responsible on all 34 counts in his New York legal “hush cash” trial in Could. None of Trump’s ongoing and up to date controversies – which incorporates an indictment alleging legal effort to overturn the 2020 election and a civil jury discovering that he sexually abused Jean E. Carroll – have impressed White and the UFC to distance themselves from Trump.
If something, White and the UFC have embraced Trump much more, inviting him as a particular visitor to premium occasions 4 instances previously yr. Trump attended UFC 290 in Las Vegas in July 2023; UFC 295 at New York’s Madison Sq. Backyard in November 2023; UFC 299 in Miami this previous March; and UFC 302 in Newark, N.J. on June 1, simply days after his legal conviction.
It’s no marvel White will stump for Trump but once more.
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